Taking the Mask Off Mascots
Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog post in regards to diversity in schools. My name is Bevan Fernandes and I am a fifth-year concurrent education student completing my Bachelor of Education at Brock University. I have decided to make a blog on diversity issues in school in order to share my thoughts about topics we discuss in class and generate discussion. I also hope to look back on these blog posts a few years from now when I have already begun teaching to see how far I have come, how much I have changed, what I need to do differently, and to use this as a guide to incorporate equity issues in my classrooms in addition to reminding myself of the different avenues my students come from. This week I will like to talk to you about First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people. Now as a person with a history background, I am quite familiar with the term First Nations, and the wrongful use of the term "Indians, Native Indians, etc". With this in mind, this week was the first ...
